A jealous Coventry thug, who launched a nunchuk and knife attack on a man he wrongly believed was a love rival, must accept his stiff jail term, top judges have ruled.

Michael Patrick Judge, 45, assaulted a workmate at his Ross-on-Wye home, smashing him with the martial arts weapon and stabbing him.

Judge, of Miles Meadow, Bell Green, Coventry, was jailed for six-and-a-half years at Worcester Crown Court in April, after he was convicted of wounding with intent.

Yesterday, three senior judges at London’s Appeal Court rejected a sentence challenge by Judge, saying his jail term is certainly “not manifestly excessive”.

Mr Justice Cranston said Judge confronted the victim at his home in Hom Green, on September 20, 2013, wrongly accusing him of having an affair with his girlfriend.

Despite the man’s vehement denials, Judge knocked him to the ground with the nunchuck, before attacking him with the knife and kicking and punching him.

He fought off Judge, before the attacker vowed to return and shoot him. The victim suffered a cut to his shin, another to his chin, as well as bruises to his eye, head and shoulder.

After his arrest, Judge insisted that he had only taken the nunchuks to the victim’s home and claimed that the victim had produced the knife. This was, however, rejected by the jury and he was convicted.

On jailing him, the judge said the offence was a grave one, given that Judge had gone to the victim’s home with the intention of causing “really serious harm”.

On appeal, his lawyers described Judge as a basically good man who had “taken leave of his senses” on the ill-fated afternoon.

It was argued that the victim’s injuries were relatively minor and that Judge’s sentence was far too harsh.

But Mr Justice Cranston, sitting with Lady Justice Hallett and Mr Justice Knowles, rejected the appeal, saying: “On any view, this sentence was not manifestly excessive.

“It simply cannot be contended that the offence should have been treated for sentencing purposes as an assault occasioning actual bodily harm.”